Friend of mine just showed me his cheap 13" laptop running Intel D2500 and first thing he said that he had issue installing linux on it.
When I asked about GPU and answer was "Intel" I assured him that for last 10 years I only used Intel GPU based laptops and had great experience. I tried Fedora 19 Live - failed to boot, then Linux Mint 15 - got to screen but with terrible artifacts on screen, check them out - http://youtu.be/mha7fZU1xFg, then tried latest Fedora 20 Live Beta 5 - boot starts with artefacts but fails to boot into desktop. Few hours later after reading up on this issue I managed to get laptop "working" with Linux Mint 15 (updated kernel to 3.11) but had to blacklist gma500_gfx driver, only then I get somewhat usable laptop (but with lower resolution and no video acceleration). I'm really interested what is the state of gma500_gfx driver in latest kernel, is it reasonable to expect that this driver will get updated and have better support or should I just say to my friend to grab version of Windows 7 and to run with it... any suggestions? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
